There have been 2 Leadership Training Courses in spring 2011 and 2012 facilitated by Timothy Bedford and Rosalind Cooper. The main aim of the courses is for teachers to develop the capacity to implement their action research plans to promote GNH in their schools.

In addition the courses have included transformative pedagogy, media literacy, documentary filmmaking for GNH, and ICT skills such as SUSNET – a web-based learning environment.

The work in Bhutan will provide a means for reflecting on the ways in which Bhutan’s unique GNH development paradigm can have a positive impact on Education for Sustainable Development in Finland. As Vandana Shiva has said:

Perhaps Bhutan is not a little island; it is a lighthouse for the way the world should be if the world has to have a future.